Hanging rudder



(No Model.)

No. 439,573. Patented Oct. 28 1890.

|NVENTOR ITQESSES- UNITED STATES PATENT. @FFICE.

FRANCIS J. BAXTER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HANGING RUDDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,573, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed May 29, 1890. Serial No. 353,608. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS J. BAXTER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hanging Builders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention in hanging rudders is designed more especially for rudders of canoes, sail, and other small boats, but is applicable to boats of other characters and sizes.

The improved rudder-hanging of this invention is composed of a vertical bar fixed in properposition at the stern of the boat, a fixed horizontal step or offset at the lower portion of said bar, a vertical cylindrical rod held on and projecting upward from said step and along its height separated from said bar and preferably a fixed forkedshaped arm horizontally projected and at the upper end portion of said bar and iuteriorly shaped to be substantially concentric with and to loosely but partially surround said rod, in combination with a vertical tube held on the vertical edge of the rudder-blade and suitable to set and fit on said rod end to end, resting at its lower end on said step and at its upper end portion loosely surrounded by said forked arm of said bar secured to the stern of the boat, allsubstantially and to operate as here inafter described.

In the drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side view of a rudder and of its hanging according to this invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section and in the vertical plane of the rudder-blade. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section, line 3 3, Fig. 2, and enlarged.

In the drawings, A, Fig. 3, is the stern of the boat, and B is a vertical bar fixed thereon by screws (not shown) at B or other suitable fastening devices.

0 is a fixed horizontal step or offset at the lower end portion of the bar B.

D is a vertical cylindrical rod projected upward from and held on the step 0 and along its height separated from the bar B.

E is a forked-shaped arm held on and horizontally projecting from the vertical bar B at its upper end portion and interiorly shaped to loosely but only partially surround and to be concentric with the rod D.

F is a vertical tube held on the vertical edge F of the holder H for the rudder G, and of suitable size to fit over and extend the full height of the rod D, resting at its lower end portion on the step G and at its upper end portion loosely surrounded by the forkedshaped arm E of the vertical bar B, completing the hanging of the rudder. The holder H for the'rudder-blade terminates at its upper portion below .the forked arm E.

The hanging of a rudder as described obviously allows the rudder to be worked as desired and to be readily unshipped or unhung and again shipped or hung.

The rudder, as may be well to observe, is to be provided with suitable means, in part shown at I, for working it, preferably applied, as shown, to the upper end portion of the tube F, hung on the vertical rod D of the part of the rudder-hanging secured to the boat. The forked-shaped arm E, while freely admitting the rudder-blade at the opening K, Fig. 3, between the outer ends of its tines,in shipping and unshipping the rudder serves, by surrounding the tube F of the rudder when in position, to hold and steady the rudder, and thus to obviate lateral strain on the center rod D, making the bearing for said tube of the rudder.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A hanging for rudders, composed of a vertical bar B, held on the stern of the boat, a horizontal step 0 at the lower end portion of said bar, and a vertical cylindrical rod D, held on said step, in combination with a vertical tube F, held on the vertical edge of the holder for the rudderblade and shaped to fit over said rod and to rest on said step of said bar, substantially as described, for the purposes specified.

2. A hanging for rudders, composed of a vertical bar B, held on the stern of the boat, a horizontal step 0 at the lower end portion of said bar, a vertical cylindrical rod D, held on said step, and a fixed horizontal forked arm E, open at its outer end and shaped to partially surround said rod at its upper end portion, in combination with a vertical tube In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 1 held on the vertical edge of the holder for my hand in the presence of two subscrlblng the rudderblade and shaped to fit over said witnesses.

rod and to rest on said step of said bar and FRANCIS J. BAXTER. 5 to be loosely surrounded by said forked arm, \Vitnesses:

substantially as described, for the purposes ALBERT \V. BROWN,

specified. FRANCES M. BROWN. 

